Lisa Madsen Rubilar
Want to Read Something Truly Unique?
Mary Kane’s short story collection, In the Book I’m Reading, is genuinely unique, a distinction I give to few books I’ve read. Each of...
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Lisa Madsen Rubilar
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
America: We Owe it to Ourselves to Read This Book
Hey, America. Let’s turn off the television, postpone our Twitter fix, ignore for a time political diatribes, and read The Prophets, the...
Lisa Madsen Rubilar
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
Elena Ferrante Brilliantly Portrays an Italian Childhood in My Brilliant Friend
I came to My Brilliant Friend because my sister had read it, and said she wanted to talk with someone about it. I haven’t read the rest...
Lisa Madsen Rubilar
- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
A Nun’s Life: Reading Lil Copan’s Little Hours Has Changed Mine
Little Hours by Lil Copan is that rare novel for which the last page leads directly back to the first. There was no sense of relief when...
Lisa Madsen Rubilar
- Jan 10, 2020
- 2 min
When Waterloo is Just the Beginning
My first read of the new year and decade is Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia (The Orion Publishing Group, U.S. edition 2016). Yes, that Julian...
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